Ben Crookston

Ben conducted his fieldwork with the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. He assisted on collaborative effort to reduce the incidence of Rocky Mountain spotted Fever among Native Americans on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. He also did data collection and analysis, health education material development, and community presentations.

Amy Christensen

Amy completed her fieldwork with the Nevada County Community Health Department in Nevada City, California. She worked on a Community Health Status Report, from start to finish. This involved gathering info and data by coordinating with health department staff and other community members as well as researching state-level databases. The report covers: general demographic/social/economic indicators of Nevada County; the health status of special populations; the status of specific diseases/health issues in Nevada County compared with statewide rates and HP2010 goals; the purpose and accomplishments of the health department programs.

Deb Jensen

Deb completed her fieldwork with the Utah Asthma Program. They wanted some help to establish baseline attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about asthma. She created a survey that she distributed statewide to elementary school personnel and analyzed all data. The results will be used in program planning.

Christi Romney

Christi's fieldwork took her in a variety of different directions. As an intern at Freedom from Hunger, she helped to create a public relations database, partner profiles, and press kits to promote FFH's name and projects

As an intern at USAID's Latin America and Caribbean Health Bureau, she conducted a desk review of HIV/AIDS programs throughout LAC region; assisted with strategic planning and budgeting; assisted in the phase-out of Family Planning programs in Paraguay and Nicaragua; and represented the LAC Health Bureau with visiting and grant-seeking international political leaders.

As a volunteer for United Families International, she helped to determine the need/desire and establish support for Stay Alive HIV/AIDS prevention program in South Africa (included travel to South Africa).

As a volunteer with Bokamoso Home Based Care, she represented the community of Magareng at country health, HIV/AIDS, child abuse and MCH conferences; wrote grants and presented proposals to fundraise for the program; conducted quanitative and qualitative research to assist in the design of a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and care program; collaborated with Bokamoso, loveLife, and other local health and social service organizations to conduct a health needs assessment of Magareng.

Meredith Bergin

Meredith completed her fieldwork with the National Jordanian Anti-Tobacco Society at Amman, Jordan. She worked primarily with a diverse audience of Jordanian and Palestinian college students as she gave presentations and hosted booths at health fairs and developed a smoking cessation program.

Ali Bowden

Ali completed her fieldwork with LDS Charities in Ghana, Africa. She, along with another MPH student, taught Neonatal Resuscitation Training to nurses and midwives throughout Ghana. She also collaborated with LDS Charities and the ministries of education to develop a hygiene teaching module for children in primary school grades 1-3. The module was taught to roughly 2,000 students, presented to the teachers and headmistresses in each of the individual schools, and given to the director of curriculum development for the greater Accra region.

Shalece Kofford

Shalece completed her fieldwork with LDS Charities in Ghana, Africa. She, along with another MPH student, taught Neonatal Resuscitation Training to nurses and midwives throughout Ghana. She also collaborated with LDS Charities and the ministries of education to develop a hygiene teaching module for children in primary school grades 1-3. The module was taught to roughly 2,000 students, presented to the teachers and headmistresses in each of the individual schools, and given to the director of curriculum development for the greater Accra region.

Chelsea McKell

Chelsea conducted her fieldwork project at the Southeastern Utah District Health Department in Emery County, Utah. She used a Utah State Health Department-developed instrument to identify where improvements in health services and status are needed. Surveys were conducted in Spanish and English, and respondents were randomly selected, which provided diversity exposure. She worked with Hispanics (mostly illegal immigrants from Mexico). All were rural-American residents. Many were living under the poverty line.

Erin Johnson McKeown

Erin completed her fieldwork with the Pan-American Health Organization in Brasilia, Brazil. She worked with injection drug users, HIV/AIDS positive patients (and the doctors, nurses, health care clinics), and adolescents in Brazil.

Aaron Meacham

Aaron completed his fieldwork with the LDS Emergency Response Division in Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked with Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), Catholic Relief Services, and other non-profit agencies to coordinate relief efforts. He also sat in on meetings with officials from IRW following an earthquake in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where LDS and IRW partnered to send a 747 of relief supplies to the affected area. He helped assist in projects that were being done all over the world, which required research into the various countries and cultures where relief aid was sent. He coordinated efforts with people from a variety of countries and backgrounds.

Heather Sanders

Heather completed her fieldwork with Andean Rural HealthCare in Bolivia, South America. She worked in different health care clinics in El Alto, Bolivia serving with a lot of the native people (conducted surveys, focus groups, interviews about acute respiratory infections).

Zane Shaeffer

Zane conducted his fieldwork with the UDOH/Gold Medal School Program in Provo, Utah. His project included collecting data from schools all over Utah. Half of the interviews were with school principals and teachers that work in rural or frontier areas. The program was trying to adapt an elementary school health program to middle schools including rural middle schools. He would interview them in person in their communities or conduct a phone interview with them.

Christopher Smoot

David Stoker

David conducted his fieldwork with Freedom from Hunger in rural Ghana. He conducted market research in rural Ghana to understand the health problems which negatively affect the productivity of women microfinance clients. He worked with multiple languages and varied tribal groups across Ghana. In microcredit group meetings, he would have to communicate through a translator. There would often be singing or dancing at the end of the meeting. In the course of traveling and living throughout the country, he was exposed to countless elements of "diversity" from sacred jungle monkeys, to world cup soccer street celebrations, to living in an orphanage, to meeting a chief with 30 wives and 120 children as well as a Ford Buick.

Jun Yanagishita

Jun completed her fieldwork in two separate fieldwork experiences. First, she served with the LDS Humanitarian Services in SLC and Accra, Ghana. Second, she was involved in the pilot testing of an educational HIV/AIDS puppet show Ministry of Health in Amman, Jordan and an organizational assessment of the Jordanian National AIDS Program. She worked with members of the LDS Church in Ghana as well as the administration and students of local junior high schools. The diversity from her Jordan experience was working with Jordanians and Palestinians from the Ministry of Health and the University of Jordan.

Anna Zobell

Anna completed her fieldwork with the Welcome Baby Home Visitation Program at the Utah County Health Department in Provo, Utah. As part of the fieldwork, she translated some of the program evaluation surveys from Spanish to English. She also had the opportunity to work with a few Hispanic paraprofessionals.

Amanda Richard

Amanda completed her fieldwork experience with the Reproductive and Child Health Alliance RACHA) in Cambodia, SE Asia, along with another MPH student. As a means of investigating the terminance of maternal death and disability, she conducted interviews and focus group discussions with new, native Cambodian mothers, fathers, and traditional birth attendants, all of lower socio-economic status and residing in rural areas. She also collected information relating to the emergency obstetric services provided at the health centers and hospitals throughout a rural province of Cambodia.

Annah Layman

Annah completed her fieldwork with the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in Rockville, MD. She analyzed data on the incidence of kidney and bladder cancer among people with AIDS in the United States. Her project involved a particularly at risk and perhaps under served population in the U.S. Research allowed her to read a host of articles on similar studies conducted in the UK, Australia, Switzerland, etc. She was able to learn about the incidence of cancers, such as Kaposi sarcoma (KS), in Uganda. She also learned about other countries and cultures during informal conversations with the investigators and post-docs in her branch who represent a host of countries including Ireland, Egypt, Malaysia, Uganda, Cameroon, and the U.S.

Christine Weiss

Christine completed her fieldwork with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, DC. She worked with professionals from all over central and south America (Brazil, Argentina, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, etc.) She participated in forums, panel discussions, and meetings in Spanish, regarding maternal and child health, cultural health, and community involvement in overcoming cultural barriers.

Emily McIntyre

Grant Sunada

Grant completed his fieldwork project with the Reproductive and Child Health Alliance RACHA) in Cambodia, SE Asia, along with another MPH student. As a means of investigating the terminance of maternal death and disability, he conducted interviews and focus group discussions with new, native Cambodian mothers, fathers, and traditional birth attendants, all of lower socio-economic status and residing in rural areas. He also collected information relating to the emergency obstetric services provided at the health centers and hospitals throughout a rural province of Cambodia. He learned and participated in traditional Cambodian dancing. He also attended and danced in a Comedy for Health performance, which delivered health messages in the form of traditional and modern Cambodian comedic performances, organized by RACHA in a remote village.

Jonathan Anderson

Lisa Morris

Lisa conducted her fieldwork at the Salt Lake County Health Department, with the Women, Infants, Children program (WIC). She conducted two focus groups with only Hispanic participants. Counseled and educated Hispanic and other ethnic groups on nutrition topics. The counseling exposure occurred in two different health clinics in Salt Lake County.

Lisa Schiffman

Lori Sugiyama

Lori completed her fieldwork with the Guyana Ministry of Heath/National AIDS in Guyana, South America. She conducted an analysis of the youth HIV/AIDS peer education program. She traveled all over Guyana, a very diverse country. Along the coast, most youth mirrored a Caribbean lifestyle and were African and Indian (from India). Although both groups subscribe to a Caribbean lifestyle, both maintain traditions from their motherland. In the interior, the people are Amerindian and are the native people. They live in smaller villages, do crafts and have more of a typical South American feel.

Marin Poole

Megan Dennis

Rehema Bwika

Rehema conducted her fieldwork with the Utah County Health Department WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program. She conducted evaluations of the breast-feeding program at four clinics. Recruited Hispanic WIC participants for focus groups and interviews where they were asked about their breast-feeding attitudes and practices. She had the English survey translated into Spanish so as to collect data from Hispanic participants.